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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
Snuff and Water Finished Them.

A correspondent of the Poultry Keeper
writes how he got rid of lice. There is
no business so suited to my fancy as the
poultry business and after 6elighting
myself through my boyhood days with
the common (dunghilI) stock, conclud-
ed last year to try blooded stock, so Sc
cured several settings of eggs of the Ply
mouth Rocks, Langshans, Brown Leg
horn and Wyandotte varieties, making
me some good coops, and went at it with
vim. Now formy experience. About
fifty per cent of my eggs Matched, and
nice lot of chicks, but in about three or
foar weeks most of them had taken the
gapes and died along with the dung hill
stock on the place, and 1 will state here
that L never before saw this disease so
bad This opened my eyes, and [ concluded
that 1t would not do to keep Matching
chicks to die with gapes, without trying
some remedy; and as I had always been
under the Impression and am yet, that
the main cause of this disease is small
lice. So began to examine my hens,
and found they were lousy, and the nests
also. did not clean the nests as first
thought of doing, but concluded to try
Scotch snuff and see if it would have any
effect on them, | applied the snuff and
went on my way to examine them in a few
days, to see the effect. During the time
was to give the snuff to do its work,
saw in some poultry paper that warm
water should be sprinkled over setting
oggs in dry weather, and forthwith con-
Guided to sprinkle my eggs, but first ex-
amined to see what effect the snuff had
on lice, and found the snuff and lice both
there. [ just dobbed that water, about
103 degrees heat, in on eggs, snuff and
lice together, and the effect was surpris-
ing. The storm polluted with the scald-
ed stuff just Stayed the mites and lice.
1 just set the old hen back on the nest
while hot and steaming, and only few
of this kind cleaned out
every louise, even off of the hens, and
had very few chicks have gapes after
this. Well I got along finely with my
chicks till Fall, when the cholera struck
my flock and cleaned out the whole lot,
except very few. L was disguised, and
almost resolved to give up the hens,
but am at it again this Winter with
small yard each OF Plymouth Rocks,
Partridge Cochins, Wyandottes and
Brown Leghorns, which are Smelling out
eggs right along.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

er they lay. Whether the Brahma is
better layers than the Leghorn depends
on circumstances. The Brahma is we'll
feathered, has a small comb, and also a
good appetite. Cut off the comb of
Leghorn and keep the bird warm and
comfortable, rnd it will equal the Brahma
as layer. The cold winds are the great
drawbacks to laying, and warmth and
nourlshing food their remedies.
Because instinct teaches the turkey and
guinea to roost high in order to avoid
enemies balow, this does, not indicate
tha' there are any advantages in the out
ooor theory. Train them when young to
go uhoer shelter and they viii thrive bet
Ter ana grow faster and larger than those
not SO provided for. They will also lay
sooner ana be better fitted for spring oper-
atlons. often the ont door birds freeze
TO death or become injured in the combs,
teet and legs, while colds and roup play
havoc with them. The tree tops may an
sWer well IN summer, but not when the
mercury falls blow freezing.
The care of the eggs for hatchinp re-
qulres attention this month. IF allowed
to remain In the nest they will be iniur-
ed. Extreme heat and cold iniure the
vitality of eggs. Dip the ends of them in
very warm water for few moments and
they will not hatch. Dip the ends in very
cold water for while and the same re-
suit occurs. To secure good matches the
eggs must be collected FREQUENTLY and
kept IN some place of an even tempera-
ture of about 60 . above zero. If turned
half over once day they will keep for a
month.
The best reproducing foods for win
ter use are those Astounding in nitrogen.
Insect food supplies are such demand in
summer, but in winter the hens must be
provided with that which they should
have. Cheap foods often answers. Glover
hay, finely chopped, stepped in warm wa
ter, and then thickened with ground grain
is excellent. Meat, beans, butteemilk
and middlings will be found servieeable.
A pot of beans, cooked and thickened
with ground oats, and fed warm, will be
eagerly relished. Avoid overlooking.
Give warm mess in the morning of a
variety, chopped cabbage at noon, and
plenty of whole grain at night. -RuraE
NeaU Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

New York Saturday carried over 100 tons
of pig-iron from Alabama. This unpre-
cedented shipment is regarded as the
commencement of the great trade.
LIEUTENANT SoHwATKA was compelled
to abandon his trip through The Yellow
stsne park by the effect upon his lungs
of the high altitude and frosty atmos-
phere. AtGrand canyon he was attacked
by henorrhage. He is resting at Nam
moth hot springs.
ABOUT midnight on Wednesday vast
mass of rock and ice neal the Horseshoe
falls at Niagara fell into the gorge below,
changing very materially the formation
of the pIecipice on the Canadian side.
The break was near the spiral stairway,
and $50 feet of the government iron rail
ing was carried down.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

A CoAL-MINER near Pittsburgh, Pa, has
secured a patent on coal-mininc ma
chine which is expected to revolutionize
the coal-mining business. The machine
consists in the operation of one or more
circular saws, or disks, fitted upon one or
more shafts. The whole is worked by
means of very small rotary engine, set
upon frame, which is placed on wheels
so that the miner can move it whenever
he likes with ease. The machine is put
IN motion by compressed air or steam, or
else it can be worked by hand power. As
soon as the power is turned on, the saws
commence to revoIve, and will be forced
gradually into and along the wall of the
coal-vein. 1t will make an undercut of
four and half to six feet, as required,
saving all the coal which was hitherto lost
by the use of the pick. 1t weighs less
than 200 pounds, and can be manipulated
by one man. Fifty tons day can easily
be mined. A saving of 20 per cent. will
be realized by the m1ne-oWner, as there
will be no waste, while the miner will
augment his daily earnings by at least
double the amount without half the exer-
ton he has now. The work. ng of the
machine does not require any skill OF
practice in the handling of it. While by
the use of the pick, the miners make now
great deal of waste, the saws of the ma
chine BY striking straight into the vein
of coal will cut solid blocks out of the
vein and make every particle of the vein
marketable coal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
FLIES AND CASUALTIES.

INTERNAL revenue stamps representing
100000 burned in the custom house at
Louisville.
The Royal Lyceum Theatre, of Ottawa,
Ont, was burned Tuesday night. Loss,
$4,000. The fire was caused by the care
lessness of a boy in lighting fire with
kerosene.
JEwETT NJ RIoEMoND's handsome resi-
dence at 844 Delaware avenue, Buffalo,
was burned Monday, with many valuable
books and works of art. Loss, about
100000.
Mr.. and Mrs. James MoIohan, while
driving across the railroad track at Tay-
lorvilIe, H., were struck by train and
both were killed.
Four fremen in st. Louis were serious
ly burned by an explosion of gasoline in
Lungstross' chemical dye works.
FIRE Thursday in the Freeport, Ill
inois, Hardware Manufacturing Com
pany's factory caused a loss of $1,000.
The Phoenix Furniture Company's
mammoth building in New York was gut
ted by fire Thursday. afternoon, creating a
loss of $4,000. The furniture sold by
the concern is manufactured at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
GEORGE HAZARD, a colored man who
broke into a Catholic convent at Green
field, Mich, and compelled nun to jump
through two story window, was SEN
fenced to twenty years in the peniten-
tiary.
THE fashionable Eliot Congregational
Church at Newton, Mass, was destroyed
by fire Sunday morning. The loss is S70,-
600, with insurance of $52,50O. A stone
erected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

The ice gathered in many New Jersey
ponds has been found of late to be filed
with small particles resembling little
worms, which have come to be called ice
worms. A gentleman near Dover, who
found the ice in his pond afflicted in his
way, made an investigation. He says the
pond was filled with little wrigglers, and
these were shedding thir skins. These
skins floated TO the surface and adhered
to TIE bottom of the Ice, and, as it
froze from the bottom, filled it
with what looked like great numbers of
little worms. He has noticed that ponds
plentifully stocked with the fish are free
from the wrigglers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

Senator Edmdnds has delicate appre-
citation of good brandy.
Mrs Cleveland objects to uniformed
policemen inside the white house.
James G. Blaine is said to be planning
trip through the west next month.
Mrs Logan is in receipt of requests
from various publishers to do literary
work
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen says that
American independence is political, not
intellectual.
John Ruskin, it is again announced,
will become a member of the Roman
Catholic church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

''THE artesian we'll which Belding Bros
& Co. have been boring at their mills at
Northampton, Mass, for several months
past, has now reached depth of $500
feet, and no water yet, By way of COM
parison, we may state that the deepest
artesian we'll in the world is said to be
at Pesth, Hungary, where one is being.
sunk to supply hot water for public baths
and other purposes. A depth of 1920
feet has been reached, and the we'll sup
plies daily 10000 gallons of water heat
ed to 158 degrees Fahrenheit. The Dor
ing is to be continued until the temper
AZURE is raised to 176 degrees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
GENERAL NOTES.

JONAS GILMAN CLARK has given S1,000,-
600 to found and endow a university at
Worcester, Mass.
A JOINT resolution was offered We'd
nesday in the Nebraska Senate asking
Congress to pass law for the election
by the people of the United States Sen
ators.,
FIFTY lodges of Crow Indians, in a con-
dition next to starvation, are camped at
Clafk's fork of the Yellowstone. They
are eating cattle perishing in the snow
drifts.
A steamship which left Charleston for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
A Genial Restorative.

Hostetters Stomach Bitters are emphatcally
q genial restorative. The changes which this
great botanic remedy produces in the disordered
organization are always agreeably, though surely
progressive, never abrupt and violent. On this
account it is admirably adapted to persons of
delicate constitution and weak nerves, to whom
the powerful mineral drugs are positively injur-
ious. That it initiates those processes which
suit in the establishment Of healthful vigor rs
conSpicuouSly shown in cases where it is taken to
overcome that fruitful cause of debility indiges-
ton, coupled, as it usually is, with biiiousness
and constipation. Thorough digestion, regular
evacuation and abundant secretion, are results
which promptly and invariably attend its sys-
tematic use. Ii is, besides, the best protective
against malaria, and q first rate diuretic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
THE POULTRY YARD.
January Among the Poultry-The POultryman
Who Makes Good Use of this month Will Not
Regret 1t.

January Among the Poultry-The Poultryman
Who Makes Good Use of this month Will Not
Regret 1t.
January is the month when prices of
poultry and broilers increase the surplus
stock being principally disposed of by
the middle of the month. Capons will be-
gin to find their way to market, the high
est prices being usually obtained the first
three months of the year. Young chick
ems Matched in January will bring good
prices, as they will be of the proper size
in Mach and April, and, although early
in the season, the poultryman who makes
good use of this month will not regret it
later on.
: Roup is the great scourge at this
season. The majority Of cases come from
too much top ventilation. 1t has long
been a custom to construct openings in
the roof of poultry houses for the ad-
mission of pure air, and to carry off the
foul gases and odors, but they rather al
low of the escape Of the warmth, and
permit of the cold draughts to blow down
over the fowls. Whenever the heads and
eyes of the fowls are swollen it is safe to
claim that they roost under top ventila-
tors. There is too much ventilation IN
some poultry houses. The great difficult
ty with many who live in cold climates is
to keep the cold air out. Dampness,
draughts, exposure to keen, cutting winds
during the day, and getting the wattles
wet when drinking cause frosted wattles
and also roup. If the roup once secures
a foothold, it hangs on :enaciously, and
the fowl will hardly pay for the labor of
''doctoring" il.
The proper hens to keep during the
winter are those that are heavily feather
ed and have small combs. Such birds en-
dure the cold better than others, and are
not so easily affected by frost In severe
weather. The warmer and more COM
Portable the hsns are in winter the often
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

John Burroughs, the naturalist, has
given the title of '.Mere Egotism" to his
forthcoming sketch of his own career.
Congressman Grain, of Texas, Tom
Ochiltree's successor, is the only native
born Texan in the delegation from the.
Lone Star state.
Walt Whitman has written his reminis
cences of his visit 80 New Orleans, to be
published in the Picayune of that city on
It's fftietk anniversary, Jan. %.
Levi P. Morton says that General Grant
possessed the faculty of remembering
men in higher degree than any person
he ever met or knew.
Congressman John E. Russell, of Massa-
chusetts, thinks that the Bay State will be
a doubtful one in 1888 if Cleveland is
nominated by the democrats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

TIE United States Senate has passed a
bill granting to company the privilege
of building second bridge across the
Missippi river at st. Louis. It is to be
located not nearer than two miles of the
present bridge, and the alleged object is,
by competition with the present bridge,
to reduce traffic and passenger tolls.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

SOME idea of the wonderful progress
now being made in microscopical science
may be formed by the fact, as stated by
the president of the British association
lately, that results are now attained in
this line which mathematicians five years
ago declared to be impossible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

THE fund collected for Mrs. Logan
from the dead generals friends aggre-
gates Doth the Washington and Chicago
subscriptions being included) above $780,
900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

ONLY 20 per cent. of the population of
Pennsylvania are farmers, and her lands
were returned in 1880 at $40 per acre,
and the average general product of each
farm-worker was $500. Georgia has 70
per cent. of her population on the farms,
and her farming lands average 81 per
acre, and the average of farm labor is
$40 Per annum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
A Belief Bill introduced.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Representat1ve
Miller, of Texas, to-day introduced in the
house call for the relief of deposltors IN
the Freedman saving bank. The bill ap-
propriates 100000 for the relief of de-
positors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

JULIA WEIGLEY. lives in a small log hut
near Pittsburgh. Pa, with lot of chick
ems, geese, and dogs as companions. She
is great grand daughter of Lewis Boil
man, one of the young men who helped
Lafayette escape from his guard at vi
emma, Austria, in 1894, and who was sub
sequently captured and sentenced to
death by the Austrian authorities and re-
leased on condition that he would at once
leave for America, his native land. The
Humane society of Pittsburgh has en-
ployed an attorney to look after Julia
Weigley's property and see how it can be
secured for her benefit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

When irritation of the throat causes
tickling cough, use Red Star Cough cure,
which will effect Immediate and perma-
nent relief. One of Brooklyn's Board on
Health officers recommends 1t as purely
vegetable and perfectly harmless. PRICE,
% cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

STATISTICS are seldom interesting, but
they are sometimes appalling. It ap-
pears that during the last seven years
there have been 1858 killed by railroad
accidents in the United States and Cana
da, and just over 10000 injured. The
year 1886 had 200 less accidents than
1885, but these killed fifty more passen-
gers Notwithstanding. The year 1884,
with nearly 500 killed and 1000 injured,
still stands prominently as the most
fatal to railroad passengers during the
past decade, and it is to be hoped that
its unenviable reputation of worst on
the record may long remain unassailed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

st. Jacobs Oil deedens pain and makes
the lame walk. Major Arnold, of the
Occidental Hotel, San Francisco, CAL,
was completely cured of rheumatism by
its use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

Pudding eating contests are popular IN
Seattle, Washington territory.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19
U. s. LAND OFFICE, a
HALEY, IDAHO,
Nav 10. 1871

On and after June Is, 1887, wa
will receive at this Office applications
for any Public Lands embraced in
the territory covered by Executive
Order of April 20, 1887, viz: From
Range 10 e. to 20 E. inclusive, and
to the south line of the Territory Of
Idaho.
HOMER L. POUND, Register.
}. S. WATERS, Receiver.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19
BLUFF JOHN SWINTON.

John Swinton is a very plain spoken
man (says the Butte Miner. He
calls black, black, and white, white.
In recent issue of his paper he
uses bitter language against Henry
Georges friends who manage the
Land and Labor party. Among
other things be says they are antag-
onists to all who will not take out a
fve-dollar charter for land club, and
that these clubs are not agents of CO.
operation but elements of discussion
in the labor reform movement of the
country. He declares that the
"George party" in New York City is
run by ring managers who have
adopted the policy of rule or ruin
after having failed in the role of dog
in the manager. He ascribos the con.
duct Of the Land and Labor commit
teemen to jealousy of the success of
the Union Labor organization in
Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan. Mr.. Swinton's expressions do
not indicate that extreme desire to
conciliate the absence of which he so
severely condemns in the doings of
the Land and Labor managers. His
most forcible point is the claim that
Mr.. Georges friends subordinate the
interests of labor on matters regard
ing which all agree to the doctrine of
denial to individual land ownership,
from which many members of work.
mems organizations dissent.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19
Active, Pushing and Reliable,

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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19

The laws of Missouri require
that at least 50 per cent. of the capital
stock of incorporated companies shall
be paid up by stockholders as a pre-
iiminary to beginning business. The
laws Of Illinois make no such re-
quirement. Hence all the mining
and most Of the industrial joint stock
companies organized in St. Louis are
incorporated under the laws of Hi
nois, and nominally have their prin-
cipal Office in East St. Louis, an Hi.
nois town just across ths river from
the Missourian metropolis. But the
authorities of East St. Louis now pro-
pose to require license of $500 a
year from all such interpretations, and
the stockholders are looking up an
other town for headquarters. If they
move from East St. Louis they will
cripple that town, as they will take
their trade with them.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19
THE "TlMESo MAPS OF THE GOLD
REJT

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All Others desiring copies can pro-
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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19
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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19

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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-19
Notice to Creditors,
Estate OF ARCHIBALD G. WATSON, DEorAsrn

Notice Is hereby given by the undersigned "A
ministrafor of the Estate of Archibald O. Watson
deceased To the creditors Of and all persons having
GAINS against the said deceased, to exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers, within four months
after the frst publication Of this notice, to the
said Administrator, at his place of business i'm
the town OF Broadford In the County of Alturss.
Dated at Bradford, Idaho May 10, lss7,
CfRILLE VERDON,
Administrator of Estate Of Archibald O. watson,
"ioSe deceased.
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